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The Eagles on Sunday afternoon waived receiver\/return man Xavier Gipson.<\/p>\n
That means they\u2019re sticking with Britain Covey as their punt returner.<\/p>\n
Gipson injured his shoulder in Dallas on a disastrous play that resulted in a fumble. He missed last week and Covey filled in and performed well. Now that Gipson is healthy, the Eagles have elected to stick with Covey, who has been the Eagles\u2019 full-time returner before.<\/p>\n
Covey didn\u2019t have many opportunities last week but made the most of the one he got.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, obviously a familiar face with Covey,\u201d special teams coordinator Michael Clay said during the week. \u201cI thought he had a good job, difficult with conditions out there with being windy. Only had really that one opportunity to return it. I thought he did a nice job. It was one of those punts that we call, it was so bad, it was good, in terms of it came off Tory Taylor’s foot kind of sideways and it was short then it just kept rolling and we didn’t know — if he didn’t pick that up, who knows where that ball would’ve rolled to, could have been to the 15, things of that nature. He did a good job of kind of corralling and getting square. Then he made two miss and got nine yards out of it and kind of vintage Covey making something out of nothing to get us that first down in terms of the return.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I thought he did a good job of battling against the conditions, the kickers, the punters right there. It was a good to have a familiar face there in Covey back.\u201d<\/p>\n
By waiving Gipson, the Eagles opened a roster spot that can be used to bring safety Marcus Epps off Injured Reserve. The Eagles must make that move by 4 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n
Epps has missed the last four weeks on IR with a shoulder injury but is expected to play against the Chargers on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n
The Eagles on Sunday also downgraded rookie OT Myles Hinton to out. Hinton has been on IR all season but has been practicing after having his window opened. The Eagles next week will have to either activate Hinton or shut him down for the season.<\/p><\/div>\n
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